If organ failure is the main cause of death, would you live indefinitely with a successful organ transplant?

Question

If the main reason people die is the organs fail, if replacing the organs, would you be able to live inventally (without getting shot or poisened etc.)

Answer 1

Sorry that the other answers are so negative. Yes, there is the possibilty. Let me refute some of the objections the others have made.

1) As to need for immunosuppression, eventually we will learn to tease the MHC /MHCII molecules of an allograft to be recogn. as self by the immune system. Or we grow in-vitro organ with receipeint cell culture w. novel scaffolding techniques. Clones are not needed.

2) As to trauma, our ability to do presurgery 3d modelling of area is improving, meaning fewer surprises during surgery, and our ab
ility to connect up the vasculature/nerves is also improving with discovery of VEGF, and other factors, and ability to prevent scarring in neurosurgery.

Will this be available to the public ? No. But very wealthy people will be able to obtain these services.
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Answer 2

NO, failure oif the rest of the non-major organ systems will bring the demise, Organic degradation of the cells and their DNA means max lifetime will never exceed 140 years and that is naeraly impossible today. Cancer gets oine if not organ degradation or an accident, etc. the longer one lives the higher the chances for dying,,, yikes !!!

MAXR

Answer 3

You mean a series of organ transplants surely?
The answer is no, because each transplant operation adds to the bodies trauma etc. Scar tissue etc would build up and something would eventually fail.
HOWEVER!!!
If you mean that with genetic advances in stem cell therapy could we continually regenerate the human body the answer is probably, hopefully and almost certainly yes.
Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

No. Usually organs fail due in part to some other medical condition. Also, people who receive transplants have to take immuno-suppressive medicines the rest of their lives and are at higher risk for infections.

Answer 5

No. The organ is a bilogical object. Hence it has to give way sometime or the other.
Even if you transplant it would give way some time or the other.
Even mecanical oblects wear out sometim, what are biological objects then?

Answer 6

What sort of question is that? My grandad had organ failure but we found out that one of the air tubes was cracked so we fixed it. Sounded great when he played it..

Seriously, what do you mean by an odd question like that?

Answer 7

You cannot transplant the brain/spinal cord, and it they fail at some point.